Lotus Sport Exige Turns In A Fine Performance

Lotus Sport Exige turns in a fine performance in the G2 Category

of the Zhuhai round of the FIA GT Championships

Following an impressive victory at the 12-hour Merdeka Millenium Endurance Race at Sepang,

Malaysia in August 2005, the Amprex Motorsports Lotus Sport Exige, developed by a small

team in Lotus Sport at Hethel, received a special invitation to race at Round 9 of the highly

competitive FIA GT championship at the Formula One-standard Zhuhai International Circuit in

southern China.

Merdeka-winner Tengku Djan, and Paul Stockwell, five times Australian champion, led the G2

Category until 3 laps from the end of the three hour race when Tengku Djan Ley pulled into the

pits suffering from severe dehydration and exhaustion caused by soaring temperatures.

The team finished one place behind the eventual class winner, the Belgian pair comprising of

Le Mans driver Vanina Ickx and Bas Leinders in a Vertigo Streiff race car.

Amprex Motorsport Team owner Genji Hashimoto said afterwards: "We had a fuel leak

problem during the whole race. We planned to do only one pit stop, but in fact we had to stop

four times! Anyway we learnt a lot in the FIA GT Championship, it was a good experience for

us, we are happy with this weekend."

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